Initiative:

Sustainable Healthy Diets

Partners

Sustainable Healthy Diets is co-led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (the Alliance) in close collaboration with Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and with contributions from the International Potato Center (CIP).


Strategic Partners
The Initiative works closely with Strategic Partners in each target country. These national partners are driving the implementation of their country’s food systems transformation agenda. The Initiative supports Strategic Partners through research, capacity sharing, and connectivity to global topics, insights, and discussions. Together, the Initiative and Strategic Partners identify, design, implement, and monitor solutions to transform food systems toward sustainable healthy diets.

Viet Nam – Sustainable Healthy Diets works with the Vietnam Academy of Agriculture Sciences (VAAS), National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), and Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), plus the emerging multi-stakeholder platforms to support the planning and implementation of activities supporting food systems transformation processes in Viet Nam.

Ethiopia – An agreement has been signed with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Ministry of Health (MoH), and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) to align Sustainable Healthy Diets’ work with Ethiopia’s national food systems transformation agenda.

Bangladesh – In Bangladesh, Sustainable Healthy Diets collaborates with the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council(BNNC) and the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food to support food systems transformation by engaging stakeholders, aligning research with policy priorities, disseminating results, and enhancing capacity.


Other partnerships
Sustainable Healthy Diets engages with more than 50 organizations around the world through partnerships at the international, regional, national, and sub-national levels. The Initiative collaborates with different types of stakeholders that support demand, innovation, and scaling, including academic, training and research partners; private sector partners; government and other public sector partners; multilateral organizations; foundations; international, regional, national and local NGOs; and public-private partnerships.

Sustainable Healthy Diets examines food systems from the consumer perspective, in contrast to the supply-side focus of other CGIAR Research Initiatives. The Initiative prioritizes the development of meaningful linkages and research activities with other CGIAR Research Initiatives that share its focus on greater availability and consumption of sustainable, nutritious diets, contributing to improved health and nutrition outcomes.

Collaborations include the following:

  • Fruits and Vegetables: metrics, indicators, and tools to measure diets, food environments, and consumer demand
  • Resilient Cities: methods and joint data collection on dietary patterns, drivers of food choices, and food environments in countries where both Sustainable Healthy Diets and Resilient Cities work
  • Gender Equality: gender issues and social protection in food systems
  • Foresight: modelling of demand patterns and cost of healthy diets

At the regional level, Sustainable Healthy Diets and Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia  work together on scoping reviews, assembling datasets, and designing secondary analyses to improve understanding of dietary gaps and diet quality concerns in South Asia.

Read more about Sustainable Healthy Diets’ work with national partners below.

 

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